Reports from my Web App

I hope I am in the right place where someone can help or tell me where I can get
help.

steve.dyke@weber.zodiac.com wrote:
> I hope I am in the right place where someone can help or tell me where I
can get help.
> 
> I need help using the reportwriter.jar functions or some other suggestion
on how to get data viewd on the clients screen into a formated pdf file that
they can print.

I didn't even know what reportwriter.jar was so I did a Google on it and 
within 1 min I found this example that might help:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzahh/JSPRunRep
ort.html

steve.dyke@weber.zodiac.com wrote:
> Since it appears that you do not use the reportwriter that is part of the
ibmtoolbox for java how do you handle physical reports from your web app? I
really need some help in this area. Would you mind sharing with me?

I've never had to do it actually. I just found a link to some doc about 
using the jar you referenced to generate PDF files.

How you do it exactly will depend upon how you pull the output from i5. 
There are a number of Java-based PDF generators available so I don't 
think it should be too difficult to read your data and generate a PDF 
stream to a browser via a webapp.

If it does not need to be a PDF, and the report is fairly simple. . . 

We use EXCEL templates that have a query created behind them.  Then we just
create a hyperlink and the web app with the path of the Excel template.